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A bleak Human Rights Day for Malaysia, again

COMMENT On this Human Rights Day on Dec 10 which commemorates the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Malaysia once again has very little to celebrate.

The nation’s human rights status in 2015 is nothing short of deplorable, probably the worst since the height of Mahathir Mohamad’s authoritarianism in 1987-1988 which saw, among others, Operation Lalang and the sacking of the Supreme Court justices.

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak came to power in 2009 promising sweeping human rights reforms and for a short while, he held on to his promise with the repeal of the Internal Security Act (ISA) and three emergency proclamations. However, any further optimism quickly subsided into horror as his administration swiftly replaced these outdated laws with similar and in some instances, worse laws that fall far short of international standards.

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